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TRIBORO........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1395

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4336

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A BEE-LINE "face-off", 1996.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3763

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.....seemingly heading off into the sunset......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2589

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"ABOUT FACE".......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3347

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An interior view; to so many of us, it was just the interior of just another bus we rode........back in the days when such the RTS still dominated the fleet......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1364

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[kdr3bt]

Millennium Transit Services was the last company to manufacture the RTS. I am using an iPad here at work and cannot cut and past that well with the IPad.
Enter RTS bus or MTS in a search engine. You should get some hits. The Millennium site is still up and Wiki has a good page regarding the RTS. It goes from GM to Millennium.

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Here's a good page on the RTS (some cool photos on this page!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Transit_Series

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I would say of my preferences, I leaned towards the 1982 set of RTS's with electronic 'flip' destination signs by Gulton's Luminator Division, as on TA buses PA1659 - PA1833 and MaBSTOA buses PA2580 - PA2704 (type T8J-204). (The type of sign as on the Grummans, I.I.N.M., were on PA1634 - PA1658, the last of the T8W-204 batch built in '81.) Then, the 1984 set 3400 - 3799 with the next generation of Luminator signs.

I noticed so far the '80's pics were of the T8W-204 batch with TransDot electronic signs (MaBSTOA 2201 - PA2579 and TA 1201 - PA1633).

A few Queens 1982 RTS's had malfunctioning signs in which they displayed all lower case characters rather than capital letters. That's how I learnt of their shape prior to the Rollsign Gallery website.

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W.B.:

Some great RTS trivia you shared here!

When I first started noticing the new RTS buses in the early 80's, I remembering thinking how "futuristic" they looked; at that time, to me, anyway, it did not seem that a city bus could look any more futuristic (man, was I off!)

NJT, it seems, was not at all enamored with the RTS for many years; if even a demo operated for NJT, it would be news to me.

NJT did take deliveries of later model RTS's about 1997; to me, they were not in service all that long.

If I remember correctly, NJT's RTS fleet began disappearing about the same time the NABI coaches were coming on line, and replacing the Flex METROS.

The "Joisey" RTS coaches I knew best were those ACADEMY used on the #22 HILLSIDE and the rush-hour only BOULEVARD EAST line (I recall riding on an ex-MTA RTS on the #22, back around 1999/2000)........

"NYO"

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CNG RTS-06 #8399......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1351

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Walnut Depot, 1996.

This is a truly timeless and classic RTS "portrait".......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3463

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Kings Plaza, 1997.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3460

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A gloomy, rainy day at the Kingsbridge Depot, 1987........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?786

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A timeless New York wintertime scene.....one that is now relegated to memory......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2208

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